The Devil Never Sleeps (26 page)
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Authors: Andrei Codrescu
MEMOIRS
Ay, Cuba! A Socio-Erotic Journey
Road Scholar
The Hole in the Flag: An Exile's Story of Return and Revolution
In America's Shoes
The Life and Times of an Involuntary Genius
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ESSAYS
Hail Babylon!
The Dog with the Chip in his Neck
Zombification
The Muse is Always Half-Dressed in New Orleans
The Disappearance of the Outside
Raised by Puppets Only to be Killed by Research
A Craving for Swan
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POETRY
Alien Candor
Belligerence
Comrade Past and Mister Present
Selected Poems: 1970â1980
Diapers on the Snow
Necrocorrida
For the Love of a Coat
The Lady Painter
The Marriage of Insult and Injury
A Mote Suite for Jan and Anselm
Grammar and Money
A Serious Morning
Secret Training the, here, what, where
The History of the Growth of Heaven
License to Carry a Gun
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FICTION
A Bar in Brooklyn
Messiah
The Blood Countess
Monsieur Teste in America and Other Instances of Realism
The Repentance of Lorraine
Why I Can't Talk on the Telephone
1
In December 1995 National Public Radio broadcast my commentary gently deriding the Christian fundamentalist belief known as the Rapture, an event prior to the Apocalypse, during which all true believers would be suctioned off to heaven in a single whoosh, leaving behind their cars, their work desks, and their interlocutors.
The Rapture was so imminent that many believers sported bumper stickers that said IN CASE OF RAPTURE THIS CAR WILL BE UNMANNED. I pointed out the Raptured's considerable amount of crude disregard for their fellow beings. My radio commentary engendered a vast protest organized by Ralph Reed of the Christian Coalition. Forty thousand letters of protest reached NPR and Congress, accusing me of anti-Christian bias. The protest took issue with the very existence of public broadcasting, as exemplified by demons like myself. In the end, NPR apologized for my remarks, and every one of those forty thousand letters was answered. In the wake of this unusual outpouring of sentiment, I was warned anonymously by either well-meaning or ill-wishing parties to “stay away from eschatology.” Alas.
2
Marianne Faithfull and David Dalton,
Faithful: An Autobiography
(New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1994).
Faithful: An Autobiography
(New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1994).
3
Dante Alighieri,
The Divine Comedy
, unpublished translation by A. Codrescu.
The Divine Comedy
, unpublished translation by A. Codrescu.
4
NB: American Poets Say Goodbye to the 20th Century,
edited by Andrei Codrescu and Laura Rosenthal, was published in 1996. It contains Allen Ginsberg's poem “Calm Panic Campaign Promise,” which he sent us from New York, and William Burroughs's “Lack.”
edited by Andrei Codrescu and Laura Rosenthal, was published in 1996. It contains Allen Ginsberg's poem “Calm Panic Campaign Promise,” which he sent us from New York, and William Burroughs's “Lack.”
5
William Cope Moyers, quoted in “Bill Moyers' Son: Good Connections and Bad Addictions,”
New York Times,
20 March 1998.
New York Times,
20 March 1998.
6
Villa Toscano, 3447 N. Halstead. Tel: 773/404-2643. Gay-friendly.
7
Lip,
edited by Brian Basel and Danny Postel and distributed by Left Bank Distribution, 1404 18th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122.
edited by Brian Basel and Danny Postel and distributed by Left Bank Distribution, 1404 18th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122.
8
Blackstone Ave. Bicycle Works, 6100 S. Blackstone Ave., Chicago, IL 60637. Tel. 773/241-5458.
9
For more information on the Superflex, find them online at
www.superflex.dk
or e-mail them
[email protected].
www.superflex.dk
or e-mail them
[email protected].
10
The Baffler,
edited by Thomas Frank and Greg Lane, P.O. Box 378293, Chicago, IL 60637.
edited by Thomas Frank and Greg Lane, P.O. Box 378293, Chicago, IL 60637.
11
Republic Steel and Uncommemorated Site of the Steel Massacre of 1937, Ave. O and 115th St.
12
Pullman Historic District, northeast corner of 112th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue. Hotel Florence Restaurant & Museum claims to be open Monday through Sunday for lunch, but it wasn't when we visited.
13
Randolph and Desplaines Streets.
14
You can see some of Marcos Raya's murals in the vicinity of West 19th Street.
15
Gilles Deleuze,
Cinema 2: The Time Image
(Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 1986), 126.
Cinema 2: The Time Image
(Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 1986), 126.
16
Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, trans.,
Cavafy.
Cavafy.
THE DEVIL NEVER SLEEPS AND OTHER ESSAYS. Copyright © 2000 by Andrei Codrescu. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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eISBN 9780312273811
First eBook Edition : April 2011
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Codrescu, Andrei.
The Devil never sleeps : and other essays / Andrei Codrescu.â1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-312-20294-6
I. Title.
PS3553.O3 D4 2000 814'.54âdc21
99-055765
First Edition: March 2000
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